Ask HN: Review my startup

First impressions: I really like the overall look &#38; feel of the site: approachable, modern, clean, and not needlessly "web 2.0"<p>I have trouble knowing from your messaging who your target audience is, and whether I'm in it. E.g. needs for someone who travels casually and who is accruing miles towards a particular vacation would be very different for someone who travels for a living and has dozens of accounts to keep track of.<p>For me, I've mostly standardized on United Mileage Plus and therefore make sure that any reward programs I participate in are compatible with United's program. Therefore, United's site serves as the aggregator for all my mileage/reward programs.<p>I'll sign up and see how it goes.

Remove the valid XHTML image. It has no impact at your customers at all as long as you make sure that the layout is correct in every possible browsers.<p>Anyway, nice and clean layout.

I like the idea.<p>You may want to let users know on the front page which rewards programs you support. I see that it's in the FAQ, but to see that information instantly might be more reassuring to the user (especially, the one that isn't going to look at the FAQ before leaving).<p>Personally, I would never trust your website with my reward site password (I think that's how the site works). I'm not picking on you, I simply don't trust any website with another website's password. This doesn't seem to be a hindrance to sites like Facebook that ask for your Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo password, although, unlike your site, they don't store the password (or so they claim). I don't know how you would possibly get around this limitation or whether you should bother trying, as you may get more users from the convenience of storing passwords.

As someone who has a fair few miles in each of 6 different FFPs I like the idea, but it's probably not useful enough for me to use it. I don't find any of the things listed in 'With acruw you can...' hard to do today (= you're not removing pain).<p>Where you would be removing pain is if you could do searches for reward seat availability for me. Like a kayak.com but for points. I would use that for sure (searching for reward seats is real pain).

On Firefox 1.5 on Linux (It's what they make us use at school), the "points or pay" text extends beyond the tab.<p><a href="http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=20k3o0z&#38;s=4" rel="nofollow">http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=20k3o0z&#38;s=4</a><p>But beyond that, I agree with the comments so far, excellent design and I wish you the best of luck.

Same question of always (because you are asking about startup, not website): What is your revenue model?

your valid XHTML image doesn't seem to load<p>on the design note, those are some really good images...did you make them yourselves? Also very clean overall design<p>Also...kudos on the short sign up page

Oh thankyou thankyou thankyou. I was looking for this earlier.

You have some rendering weirdness in Firefox 3.0.1 on OSX Leopard:<p>I've put up a screenshot: <a href="http://cli.gs/152EXg" rel="nofollow">http://cli.gs/152EXg</a> . Look at the first blue rectangle's left side edge and the bottom right blue box's right edge.<p>Interesting idea, too :)<p>Pierre

Personally I'd be worried about giving a brand new startup my OnePass creds, considering I have a stored credit card there and you could use them to book flights.<p>I like the idea a lot though. I used to travel quite a bit, and mainly stuck to one airline due to the mileage.

Awesome idea and clean execution. Please add international airlines. Great for the expat community which uses multiple airlines for different regional destinations.

asp? interesting. (i'm not judging at all, just curious as to your reasons for using it)<p>i like the design. the messaging isn't that compelling for me however "track your balances".<p>when i sign up for something i like to think "what am i going to get?" tracking balances isn't something that i get. could it be something like "see where you can go [with your current points]"?<p>that would make me want to sign up.

Very beautiful design. Great idea as well. I have worked for 4 years with frequent fliers and they all experience headaches with their miles and rewards....

I believe travelfli.com/ is going to be doing a similar thing, so make sure you market a lot to get the market share

Have a sign up button at the end of the learnmore page.

What does acruw mean or stands for?

As stated already - really great looking design. The idea looks good to me too. Are you thinking of travel based advertising for revenue?